4. Patrick was deathly afraid of green, leafy vegetables such as arugula."

a. Is the passage a sentence or a fragment?

b. Explain why or why not.

Answer: It is not a fragment

Explanation:

This sentence is not a fragmented one because it is complete and in it, we can see both that Patrick was afraid and because of what he was afraid. Fragment sentences are not complete and they usually have subordinators such as after, before, if, since, when, why, until and they are forming dependent clause. In this sentence, we can see an independent clause.

This is a sentence.

Explanation:

There are many differences that indicate if something is whether a sentence or a fragment.

For example, fragments don't contain a finished thought, on the other hand, sentences do. Fragments don't contain a subject, while a sentence must have one. The same is with verbs and fragments, they may contain a verb, and a sentence always contains it.

Fragments don't have independent clauses and sentence always have them, at least one.

We came to conclusion that this is a sentence because the thought is finished and we can see that someone is something (Patrick is afraid) and we also know WHY he was afraid of something. In this sentence, we have a visible independent clause.